Opera has released a third beta of Opera 10. Other then an additional 38 languages, the following changes have been made since Beta 2.

Improvements

• Visual tabs now available on the left or right side of the browser window
• Further tab improvements with better attention state design
• Spellchecker menu item moved to Preferences > Advanced > Browsing dialog box
• Additional debug skin tooltip information: skin information of the parent element, plus what skin type is active (top, left, right, bottom or default)

Fixed

• Problem when trying to open a .pdf file
• Problem when saving a session
• Pages using webfonts which caused a problem in Windows 98®
• HTML clipboard now works with both MS Office® and OpenOffice.org®

More details on these changes and download links for Windows, Mac and Linux can be found on the Opera Next website.

Web browser market share results for July 2009 have been released thanks to Market Share by Net Applications, and for another month Microsoft Internet Explorer is down again.

Internet Explorer dropped almost half a percent to 67.68%, while Firefox was up 0.04% to 22.47%.

Other winners for the month were were Safari up from 3.79% to 4.07%, and Google Chrome up from 2.40% to 2.59%.

Opera had another bad month falling from 2.03% to 1.97%.

Interesting results for Firefox, with the release of 3.5 seems to have failed at attracting any more market share. Full results for June and July 2009 are available online.

Opera have released the beta 2 of their 10th generation web browser.

Opera 10 Beta 2 has had a slew of changes, including security, interface and stability changes. A full list is available in the change log.

New features in Opera 10 included an inline spell-checker, auto-update, and Opera Turbo for faster browsing on slower connections.

The new beta version can be downloaded Opera Next website.

Opera has unveiled its secret project, which it was hoping would “change the web”. With Opera 10, the company is planning on introducing new technology called Opera Unite.

Opera Unite allows users to share files and host websites right from in their browser.

“This technology is a radical first step towards addressing what I call “the Internet’s unfulfilled promise”, which is about our ability to connect with each other and participate meaningfully online—on our own terms, and without losing control of our data” writes Lawrence Eng, Opera Software Product Analyst.

More information and early download links can be found on the Opera Unite homepage.

Opera have just released Opera Mobile 9.7 Beta 1 to the web. The new version runs on the new Opera Presto 2.2 core.

The biggest new feature is Opera Turbo, which can compress data by up to 80% before it is sent to the mobile device, dramatically increasing web page loading times.

A full list of new features can be found in the new features list, while the browser can be downloaded from the Opera Mobile website.

I have gone and put Opera 9.64, Opera 10 Alpha, and Opera 10 Beta 1 through the Acid 3 test, V8 Benchmark, and SunSpider Benchmark tools to see how the new browser is stacking up.

The results are pleasing, with the browser clearly heading in the correct direction. Graphed results are below.

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Opera has released Opera 10 beta to the public following months of development from the alpha version.

The new browser includes a new interface, visual tabs, Opera Turbo for fast browsing on slow connections, customisable speed dial, and a whole lot more.

A full list of changes can be found in the changelog, and the new release can be downloaded from the beta homepage.

Browser market share results have been released for May 2009 thanks to Market Share by Net Applications, and no surprises as Microsoft Internet Explorer loose another 0.5% of it’s market share, dropping back to 65%.

Firefox had a steady month, still with its 22.5% share. Apple’s Safari has jumped from 8.2% to 8.4% this month, while Google Chrome has seen a jump from 1.4% to 1.8%.

Opera has also stayed steady, with 0.7% of the pie. Microsoft should be concerning, with the recent release of Internet Explorer 8 hoping to patch the trickle of users flocking to other browsers.

The full detailed statistics for May’s results are available online.

The latest development snapshot of Opera 10 contains a new skin for the browser, which appears to have its base from the Google Chrome skin.

Along with the new release, the Opera team have noticed that reaching version 10 has become a problem, with some high profile sites detecting the user string as version 1. To solve this Opera have temporarily changed the user agent string to read “Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00”.

A full list of changes and download links can be found in Opera Desktop Team blog.

With Windows 7 Release Candidate just out the door, it seems the operating system is already raising complaints from Mozilla and Opera over the continued bundling of Internet Explorer.

“Our initial review suggests this is a blatant use of the Windows operating system to change the market dynamics of browser usage,” said Mozilla Chairperson, Mitchell Baker.

This is despite the fact that Internet Explorer 8 is now an optional component in Windows 7.

Microsoft still has a month to address the anti-competitive complaints bought against it by the European Union.